Once again, ladies and gentleman, direct from Columbus, Ga., Kevin Wendt!

The Monday pages are up at newspagedesigner. Just another solid, solid newspaper.

It defies belief how calm and collected everyone here from Biloxi seems. Last night we received pictures of a couple folks' houses. One seemed pretty OK (there'll be some trips to the Home Depot), while another guy's apartment complex is pretty messed up. His apartment is relatively OK, but the building lost its roof. And his car is totaled ("And I was THIS CLOSE to paying it off!").

I'm sure work is a good distraction and any down time is spent wondering about all sorts of issues. I just can't say enough about how professional and down-right friendly everyone has been. By this point, someone should have blown up at someone about something. I mean, it's still a freakin' newspaper!

But that just hasn't happened. Along with working our asses off, there is plenty of laughter to brighten the mood. When everything gets serious and we hit the late-night rush -- and there's always a late-night rush -- all it takes is a good Stan Tiner impersonation (exec. editor in Biloxi) to lighten the mood.

Biloxi's presses are up and running, and we're transmitting pages down to them. Operations will slowly move down there until the end of the week, when hopefully the transition will be complete.

kevin

On the humor-in-every-tragedy front, Executive Editor Stan Tiner had a once-in-a-lifetime experience last night; he was in a port-a-potty when a forklift picked it up to reposition. He suffered no lasting ill effects.